Lilya Barak at # 1

Lilya Barak (Birth name Lilya H. Maranjyan) was born in Dilijan, a small green town of northern Armenia. Lilya started showing interest in the arts at a very early age. As a child she demonstrated multiple skills in music, poetry, theater, drawing and languages.
Lilya’s musical abilities developed very quickly. At the age of six Lilya insisted on joining her elder sister in piano classes. Lilya was one of the very active pupils at school. She was always selected to participate in school concerts and choir performances.
Lilya began writing music almost as soon as she could read it. At the age of 13 she has already written more than 30 songs, both in Armenian and English. That same year she finished public school and entered Yerevan State Musical College after Romanos Melikyan. During these years of study Lilya combined her piano classes and concerts with her real passion: singing.
Durign the years of economic crisis in Armenia her family’s needs necessitated her taking work as a linguist (her other specialty).
But those years of performance hiatus were not wasted. She continued writing new songs and improving her voice. Finally, after six years of helping to support her family, Lilya managed to record her first song. Her appearance at the recording studio opened new doors for collaboration. Lilya met a brilliant musician, composer and a pianist Vardan Sardaryan known as V-Sard, who had a great influence on her musical outlook. Soon, Lilya appeared with her new stage name: Lilya Barak. She had performed in both live and televised concerts, recorded her first album and several music videos to showcase her songs. The video based on the song “Wandering in Foreign Lands” was voted third overall in popularity in Armenia in 2007. The song has also been played on almost all Armenian radio stations. In 2008 the song “Temptation” was included in “Armenian Hits” Collection. Lilya was interviewed on music TV shows, such as “Rubikon”, “Accord”, “Bari Luys”, “Qneluts Arach”, to name a few. In addition, the singer has been interviewed for popular Armenian magazines, such as “Hars”, “Menq” etc. Lilya Barak has also participated in local and international singing and songwriting contests. She was one of Top 20 finalists as a performer in 12th Annual Unisong International Songwriting Contest.
In summer of 2009 Lilya attended classes at Berklee College of Music in Boston, where she studied and performed in almost all the genres of music: starting from classical to jazz, rock, country and reggae. Currently Lilya Barak lives in the United States. She continues writing and recording her songs as well as negotiating with different U.S. record labels to release her first album “Eros”.

Recent updates:

In November 2009 Lilya was selected one of top 5 vocalists in “Best Vocalist of the Month” Competition, SingerUniverse Online Magazine, headed by veteran music publisher/A&R exec Dale Kawashima, with the Advisory Board consisting of five top industry pros: eight-time Grammy winner Chaka Khan; writer/producer Walter Afanasieff, Billy Mann (Senior A&R Executive for EMI/Capitol Records); Jay Landers (Senior Vice President of Columbia Records); and Lis Lewis (top vocal coach).

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